Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking.